On Monday 05 March 2007 11:11, David Lynam wrote:
> > On Monday 05 March 2007 09:41, David Lynam wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a bit of an issue, i had mythtv up and running on both a
> > > frontend/backend and seperate frontend machine and it worked fine.
> > > I then
> > > tried to include a new XBOX frontend. While trying to get the XBOX
> > > using the PC monitor and trying to scan for AV i seem to have deleted
> > > the file /dev/video0 (may have been some elses doing).
> > >
> Its ubuntu edgy 6.10! the file is for the capture card ivtv 150! When I go
> into the settings in mythtv and go into the capture card option and it says
> failed to open file! i cant see the file in /dev! i have rebooted a few
> times with no luck?
Ubuntu uses udev, so it should be detecting all hardware for which you have
drivers, assuming you've not damaged your udev configuration too badly. You
still haven't summarized what you've attempted to do when configuring your
Xbox frontend, so I can only make some guesses about what might have gone
wrong, and how these problems might be fixed:
1) The card could have become dislodged. This is most likely if you opened
the case for any reason. You can turn off the power, pull the card, and
reseat it to fix this.
2) The card may have been physically damaged. If so, you'll need to replace
it.
3) If you touched any of the files in the /etc/udev directory tree, udev may
not be working correctly. If you think you may have done this, you'll
need to get some working replacement files (from the udev package or
various others, depending on what's damaged or missing).
4) If you messed with any of the driver files in /lib/modules, you may need
to replace them. There are actually two sub-possibilities here:
a) If a kernel driver file has been removed or damaged, you'll have to
replace it. You can do this by re-installing an appropriate package,
such as linux-image. If you've compiled your kernel yourself, you'll
need to recompile it and run "make modules_install" again.
b) If I'm not mistaken, the ivtv drivers come as a separate package.
If you removed or damaged an ivtv driver, you'll need to replace that
package.
5) If you recompiled your kernel, you may have omitted some necessary
drivers. If you can still boot an old kernel, try that; or you can go
through your kernel options to figure out what you omitted that's
important and add it back.
6) You could have removed or damaged the firmware for the card. The
firmware files are probably stored in /lib/firmware. If this is the
source of the problem, you'll need to replace the firmware. Consult
the ivtv documentation for details.
7) You could have created a local startup script that deletes the /dev/video0
device file. You'd probably be aware if you'd done this, though; I
mention the possibility only for the sake of completeness.
These are the possibilities that spring to mind, but there are almost
certainly others.
You may be able to obtain additional clues from dmesg output or log files in
the /var/log directory tree (/var/log/messages is the most likely to hold
important clues). Try typing "dmesg | less" at a command prompt, then paging
through the output looking for any messages from ivtv drivers or relating to
video devices. (Some of these may relate to your video card, though.) There
may be a clue, such as a message about firmware not being found. If you see
no messages relating to your video card, then it means that either the
drivers aren't present or they can't find your hardware (in other words,
options #1, 2, 4, or 5 above).
Another diagnostic tool is "lsmod", which lists your kernel modules. Pipe it
through less ("lsmod | less") or use grep to search for anything related to
your ivtv drivers ("lsmod | grep ivtv", assuming your drivers show up
as "ivtv"). If you don't see any references to your ivtv drivers, then they
aren't loading for some reason (or are built directly into your kernel, but I
don't know if that's possible for the ivtv drivers).
A final useful diagnostic is typing "lspci | less". Among the output you
should see something about your video capture card. If you can't spot
anything, then chances are good the card has been damaged or isn't properly
seated.
--
Rod Smith
http://www.rodsbooks.com